Peter Scully, Jingping Song, Jules Pagna Disso, Mark Neal

Abstract

This paper extends the CARDINAL architecture by Kim
et al. (2005) to CARDINAL-E. CARDINAL-E keeps the innate
immune system behaviour at every computer on the network
and relocates the adaptive immune system behaviour
to higher performance computers. Two paradigmatic shifts
are achieved by this modification. First is the shift from
standalone to supportive, otherwise considered as architecturally
static to dynamic. This leads to an additional layer of
homeostasis at a network-wide level. The intended effect is
to leverage unused capacity on networks of heterogeneous
machines. Secondly, the change represents a subtle granular
shift from "each computer has identical immune system
components" to "the network (as a whole) carries all the immune
system components". This is a synthetic network-wide
"body" where organs (CARDINAL's Periphery and Lymph
Node components) are finite and proportionate in quantity,
and evolve their behaviour over time.